Always try to choose a baking dish or pan with the same volume that's called for in your recipe. The depth of the baking vessel can vary, but a dramatic difference can cause issues. Too shallow a depth, and the mixture may overflow. If the baking pan is too deep, pastries may not brown properly, or the sides of a cake may end up higher than the center.

Use the following section to determine which baking pans can be substituted for others based on their full volume. Round Pans inch jelly roll pan holds 12 cups of batter, the same as a 10×2 inch square pan, 10-inch Bundt pan, 10×2.5 inch springform pan, and a 9-inch tube pan. But if you’re making a cake, it’s probably a sponge cake that really does need to bake in that specific 10” x 15” pan, since it’s almost certainly going to be rolled up into a log. Other pan combinations (two rounds? A round and a square?) just won’t cut it. Chocolate:Use chocolate grahams to easily create a chocolate crust. This is perfect for chocolate-based fillings like mousse or chocolate cream pie.Remember that number of servings are intended as a guide only. Actual results may vary. Bake Time and Temperature for Cake Sizes For circle pans, determine the area by multiplying the radius squared by π. (π = 3.14, the radius is half of the diameter, and squaring means multiplying a number by itself.) For example, the area of a 9-inch round pan is 63. The radius is 4.5. 4.5×4.5 = 20.25. Multiply that by 3.14 = 63.5. What’s the baking area (capacity) of an 8” square pan? Multiply one side by the other — 8” x 8” — to get 64”. Easy, right? Ditto any other square or rectangular pan. 10” x 10” = 100”, 11” x 7” = 77”, etc. inch springform pan holds 10 cups of batter, the same as a 10×2 inch round pan, 9×2 inch square pan, 11×7 inch pan, a 10×15 inch jelly roll pan. inch round pan holds 4 cups of batter, the same as an 8×4 inch loaf pan. Fun discovery! Cupcake recipes yielding 12-16 cupcakes fit wonderfully in 3 6-inch cake pans. See my post for 6 inch cake recipes for more information.

inch tube pans are the standard size. I have a few that are 8 inch and 10 inch and most recipes using tube pans fit nicely in all. Now, what about that brownie or cake recipe that calls for a 9” square pan — which you don’t have? (Anecdotal information — i.e., I asked my friends — tells me that more people have an 8" square than 9" square pan.) Thoroughly mix the ingredients until the crumbs are fully coated. The mixture should resemble the texture of sand.These pans should cover just about any cake or brownie/bar recipe you run across. The challenge for most of us crops up when you have, say, an 8” square pan for brownies, but not a 9”. Or your cake recipe calls for a 9” x 13” pan, but you’d rather use round layer cake pans. What do you do then? centimeters = inches / 0.393701 Using our inches to centimeters converter you can get answers to questions like: